Three Idiots Crossing the Valley - Teamwork Principle

TeamWork??

The process of working together with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.

The team work is often a crucial part of a business as it is often necessary for colleagues to work well together, trying for the best in any circumstances. Team work often means people will try to cooperate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedbacks, despite any personal conflicts between the individual.

Why Team work is important?

Well its one thing to create a team but quite an another to create teamwork in the workplace. Just its one thing to join a team, quite another to perform as a team member. To put it in simple words, teams doesn’t work without teamwork.

What is teamwork?

There are several ways to define team work but for some color why not think as French do. The French have an excellent term for team work “espirt de corps       ”. This means a sense of unity, of enthusiasm for common interest and responsibilities.

Let’s have a look at the below picture

We can see that there are three people crossing the valley without much of a trouble. It has been possible only due to teamwork had made this impossible task possible. This is the beauty of team work, the MAGIC works in this way.

We have the following observations:-

1.       All three members have equal distribution of different kinds of situation :

High Risk 01 times

Half Risks 02 times

Fully Safe 02 times

2.       All three members have the same role in terms of effort and risk. Nobody was overloaded or relaxed.

3.       Communication and feedback is essential while working in a team.

4.       Every member is indispensable in completing the task.

5.       There were equal instances when one needed each other.

Five Stages of team work

Pshychologist bruce teckman came up with five key stages through which team moves. They are

1.       Forming

2.       Storming

3.       Norming

4.       Performing

5.       Adjourning